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This document preceeds an IEG evaluation and provides information on the key questions, rationale, scope, and evaluation approach. Annual Review of Development Effectiveness These annual reviews are a meta-evaluation that provide a comprehensive assessment of the Bank's development effectiveness. They offer a broad assessment of the Bank's contribution to development effectiveness, drawing on project evaluations and IEG sector, thematic and country reviews.

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Thematic Reviews examine Bank performance and experience in a lending sector (such as agriculture, transport, and the like) or thematic area (poverty, gender, and so forth) over five to ten years and report on their conformity to Bank policy and good practice, as well as on the development effectiveness of the Bank's activities.

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The Next Ascent: An Evaluation of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program, Pakistan

This is the fourth independent evaluation by the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) in northern Pakistan. Requested and funded by the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and some of its co-donors, the evaluation
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This is the fourth independent evaluation by the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) in northern Pakistan. Requested and funded by the Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) and some of its co-donors, the evaluation
was undertaken to assist the AKRSP in shifting its strategy to accommodate a changing environment and new challenges. It looked at both the period since the last, 1995 evaluation and the full period since program initiation in 1982.
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Fertility, mortality, and morbidity have slowly and steadily declined in India since independence, but remain unacceptably high. While the root causes are poverty and low levels of education, the public health programs bear some of the responsibility. Since 1972, the Bank has contributed more than...Full Description »

Fertility, mortality, and morbidity have slowly and steadily declined in India since independence, but remain unacceptably high. While the root causes are poverty and low levels of education, the public health programs bear some of the responsibility. Since 1972, the Bank has contributed more than US$2.6 billion through 23 projects in attempts to correct these problems. This study, one of four country case studies undertaken by OED as part of a comprehensive assessment of the Bank's development effectiveness in the health sector, evaluates the Bank's assistance to the government of India in health, nutrition, and population programs.
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Reports that fall within the official categories of IEG's work. This includes Project-level, Corporate, Country andThematic evaluations, Global Program Reviews, Approach Papers, Annual Reviews, Evaluation Capacity Development and Impact Evaluations.

Resources that offer access to key findings, recommendations, lessons, and knowledge-products drawn from the World Bank Group's development experiences. These include lesson notes, briefs, summaries, cluster reports and working papers.